This newsletter provides updates on the STAY IN project which aims to help educators working with vocational students at risk of dropping out. It discusses: 1) Partners' activities over the last 7 months including two meetings in Izmir and Schwerin to develop training modules and plan pilot sessions. 2) Upcoming pilot sessions by partners in their countries to test the training programs with VET teachers, including one starting in Finland focused on engaging students. 3) An outlook that the final dissemination conference will be held in September 2015 in Utrecht.

1. Project number: 2013-1-AT1-LEO05-09478
Newsletter No. 2
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
December, 2014
Pictures taken during the 3rd
Partners’ Meeting in
Schwerin, on
13-14
November
2014
Please refer to the “flagged” boxes for further
information about the national pilot sessions.
Picture taken during the 2nd
Partners’ Meeting in
Izmir, on 24-25 March 2014
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Dobrich
(Bulgaria) prepares training materials on:
1) Tools for Increasing Creativity;
2) What is Entrepreneurship?;
3) Identification Students of Risk;
4) Teaching Methods.
The developed tools will be piloted with teachers
in VET schools and later the materials and the
elaborated guides will be available for all the
teachers who are interested on the above men-
tioned topics and want to improve their skills and
competence.
Jugend am Werk (Austria) created a training
programme based on four developed manuals
that come with innovative tools, guidelines, good
practice examples, and simple exercises.
The main topics follow the target group approach
by mapping the experience of trainers in dual
vocational training.
The manuals on communication, training
methods, support methods, and creativity thus
represent a practical tool specifically made by
trainers for trainers!
Pilot Sessions and
Upcoming Activities
Vocational training for young people at risk of
dropping out from education is a major challenge
to the education systems throughout the
European countries. Above all, the trainers and
teachers who work with the target group every
day have to face this challenge. This is one of the
most important reasons why the STAY IN project
focuses on this group of educators. In the end,
the project partnership wants to assist them in
dealing with the challenges that go hand-in-hand
with drop-outs.
Since our last newsletter 7 amazing months
passed. During these months Stay IN partners
worked very hard to accomplish several tasks.
The aim was to provide the end users with high
quality results and to be ready for the challenging
activities foreseen until the end of the project.
Two turning points signed this period:
1- the second project meeting held in Izmir
(Turkey) on 24 and 25 March 2014. Here, the
partners reviewed the target group’s training
needs and considered the potential adaptation of
the former projects on which the transfer of
innovation is based: “School Inclusion” by Pixel
(Italy) and “CESSIT” by SPI (Portugal).
2- the third project meeting held in Schwerin
(Germany) on 13 and 14 November 2014. This
was the chance for finalising the training modules
and for planning the forthcoming pilot phase.
About Stay IN and
Recent Activities

2. December, 2014
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To keep informed:
Jugend am Werk (AT)
www.jaw.or.at
Contact: Michaela Meier
E-mail: michaela.meier@jaw.or.at
Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BG)
www.cci.dobrich.net
Contact: Tatyana Gicheva
E-mail: cci@dobrich.net
BBW in der DAA (DE)
www.daa-schwerin.de
Contact: Suse Topp
E-mail: suse.topp@daa.de
Länsirannikon Koulutus Oy WinNova (FI)
www.winnova.fi
Contact: Joanna Malmivuorli
E-mail: anne.vaahtio@winnova.fi
Pixel Associazione (IT)
www.pixel-online.net
Contact: Giovanni Caruso
E-mail: giovanni@pixel-online.net
MBO Raad (NL)
www.mboraad.nl
Contact: Mieke De Haan
E-mail: m.dehaan@mboraad.nl
Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (PT)
www.spi.pt
Contact: Marisa Rodrigues
E-mail: marisarodrigues@spi.pt
Eğitim ve Gençlik Çalışmaları (TR)
www.egeced.org
Contact: Emin Bakay
E-mail: egeced1@gmail.com
Project Partners
Newsletter No. 2
Partners meeting in Schwerin on 13-14 November 2014
MBO Raad (The Netherlands) is currently devel-
oping a computer based learning environment to
support school teachers and company trainers in
their work with students during the apprenticeship
training. The learning material will consist of four
modules: cooperation with respect to guidance
during apprenticeship, expectations of apprentice-
ship training, factors influencing ESL and Youth
culture. See: www.stayin-project.eu/nl.
BBW in der DAA (Germany) is creating four
training programmes based on previous EU pro-
jects. The partners’ training programs will content
aims, structure, explanation, methods, case stud-
ies and role plays regarding creativity, communi-
cation or teaching methods. The training programs
is the project outcome.
Eğitim ve Gençlik Çalışmaları (Turkey) will
implement the pilot testing phase of STAY IN in
Izmir with participation of 15 VET teachers and
managers. The Bornova Town National Education
Directorate and Bornova District Governorship
became associated partner in STAY IN project.
In order to reduce the drop out rate in high
schools specially in VET schools the results of
STAY IN project will be disseminated in 22 VET
and academic high schools in Bornova.
The final dissemination conference will take place
on September 29, 2015 in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Outlook
This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
WinNova (Finland) started in November 2014 the
pilot of the training programme with a communica-
tive and group oriented approach.
15 enthusiastic VET-teachers are participating in
the training programme and started by learning
more about new ways to make teaching and
learning more functional.
The group learned 10 new ways to engage the
student and make learning more fun and creative!